December 19, 2009

a.) Afghanistan b.) Obama

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It’s interesting how TIME’s editors visually weighted the past year — especially considering Obama’s wall-to-wall presence in ’08. Going by the layout, Afghanistan has moved to the center and the President — both shots from the inauguration, if I’m not mistaken, as opposed to capturing anything more substantive from his first year — has become peripheral to the war.